At a polar station on a remote island in the Arctic Ocean. Sergei, a veteran meteorologist, and Pavel, a recent college graduate, are
spending months in complete isolation on a once strategic research
base. Pavel receives an important radio message and is still trying to
find the right moment to tell Sergei, when fear, lies and suspicions
start poisoning the atmosphere...

Young French actress Julie de Hauranne speaks Portuguese like her mother
but has never been to Lisbon. She arrives in the city for the first
time just as they are about to start shooting a film based on the
Letters of a Portuguese Nun by the Count of Guilleragues, a French
nobleman from the 17th century. She quickly becomes fascinated by a nun
who prays every night in the chapel of Our Lady of the Mountain, on
Graça Hill. During her stay, the young woman has a series of encounters
that seem as ephemeral and inconsequential as those from her past. But on the night she finally speaks to the nun, she manages to perceive
the meaning of life and of her destiny.

Monday, June 27, 2011

Nairobi, Kenya. 14 year-old Abila lives with his parents in Kibera, one
of the largest slums in East Africa. One morning the teenager discovers
his father ill and delirious. Someone has stolen his soul, mumbles the
father as he sits huddled in a corner. Abila is shocked and confused but
wants to help his father and goes in search of a suitable cure.
Supported by his friend Shiku who is the same age as him, he learns that
his father has gambled his soul away in the company of a spiritual
woman. The teenager doesn't want to believe it and sets about looking
for the witch. When he finally discovers her in the darkest corner of
the ghetto, she gives him seven challenging tasks to save his father's
lost soul. Abila embarks on an adventurous journey which leads him right
through the microcosm of his home town.

The narrative revolves around police officer Amadeus Warnebring,
tone-deaf scion of a distinguished musical family, and his attempts to
track down a group of six guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public
performances are terrorizing the city.

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Increasingly anxious about his impending marriage to Nat and thoroughly bored with his day job as a wedding photographer, Theo establishes a hobby: he's hired by clients to
clandestinely snap voyeuristic photos of them as they go about their
days. Things go smoothly until a sexy exhibitionist leads
him into an all-consuming obsession. As Theo stalks her day and night,
the woman's mysterious public trysts send him reeling, forcing him to
confront uncomfortable truths about his sex life at home.

Friday, June 24, 2011

A nation standing at cross-roads. Leading up
to the country’s greatest economic crisis, the government started the
largest mega project in the history of Iceland, to build the biggest dam
in Europe to provide Alcoa cheap electricity for an aluminum smelter in
the rugged east fjords of Iceland. Today Iceland is left holding a huge
debt and an uncertain future.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Seth and Jonah are twins with a dangerous ability. Telekinesis. Things
start to spiral out of their control as their classmates end up dying in
twisted and bizarre ways. The police suspect them. But, jealousy begins
to divide them and soon they can no longer trust each other. Leading up
to a horrific battle against themselves.

The Human Resources Manager of Jerusalem's largest bakery is in trouble.
He's separated from his wife, distanced from his daughter and stuck in a
job he hates. When one of his employees, a foreign worker, is killed in
a suicide bombing and the bakery is accused of inhumanity and
indifference, the HR Manager is sent on a mission to make things right.

Lars and Johannes are brothers with very little in common. Johannes is a
high-powered lawyer with a beautiful wife and two children; Lars is a
truck driver and a drunken brute who beats his girlfriend. Having
returned to his hometown in the country, Johannes hopes for a less
hectic, more genuine lifestyle. But trouble is underfoot when Lars runs
over a woman with his truck. He sees only one way out: put the blame on
Alain, a Bosnian refugee with impaired mental functions. But when Lars,
the God-fearing husband of the victim, and his friends close in on the
Bosnian, Johannes stands up for the man and shelters him. Undeterred,
the violent, drunken horde makes their way to Johannes´ secluded house,
where the family and Alain fear for their lives. When words no longer
suffice to contain the madness, a siege begins, in which unchained
anarchy dictates a scenario of terror…

Monday, June 20, 2011

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film
follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence
of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a
complicated relationship with his father.
Jack finds himself a lost soul in
the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life
while questioning the existence of faith.

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Jörgen's world is crumbling. Forced into early retirement and harassed
by his ex-wife, the only part of his life which makes sense, his
beloved daughter Tirza, is shattered when she disappears on holiday in
Namibia. After weeks of terrifying uncertainty, Jörgen goes searching
for her, but the heat, his drinking and bad memories combine to unhinge
him. His only ally is a child prostitute called Kaisa. Together they
journey into the wilderness on Tirza's trail to discover her fate.

Saturday, June 18, 2011

At the eve of The Great War, Filip, a Serb and the school headmaster in a small Serbian town, is summoned urgently
to Belgrade to serve in the war effort. He leaves his wife with the school custodian Azem, an
illiterate, patriarchal Albanian, who gives Filip his
solemn oath to look after Lea and to see to it that nothing
happens to her.

Friday, June 17, 2011

Nelu, a man in his forties, lives in Salonta, a small town on the border. He has a simple life, fishing at dawn, then work, and finally home with
his wife. One morning, Nelu finds something different in
the river; a Turkish man trying to cross the border. Not able to
communicate verbally, the two men somehow understand each other. Nelu takes the stranger to the farmhouse, gives him some dry clothes,
food and shelter and promises he will
help him cross the border tomorrow...

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Inside a non-descript apartment kitchen, a man and a woman discuss the
inconsistencies in Little Red Riding Hood, their voices hushed, mindful
of waking the little girl sleeping in the next room. Behind a line of
abandoned trailers, on the outskirts of Bucharest, the same man waits
for something
or someone to arrive. At a
metallurgical factory, he collects two hand-made firing pins secretly
prepared by a coworker. The man's name is Viorel. He is 42 years old,
divorced, a father of two young girls, and today he will carry out a
plan that will bring order to his world.

Javier, the son of a clown, dreams of following in his father's
career footsteps, but has seen too much tragedy in his life he's
simply not funny and is only equipped to play the role of the Sad Clown.

An ambitious filmmaker has his eyes on an Oscar nomination despite the
fact that his latest film is an absolute flop in his native Iceland. At
the same time, his energetic and quick-witted mother is diagnosed with
Alzheimer´s. With his own troubles suddenly seeming petty, he tries to
show her his love by accompanying her on her journey into the night.

In turn-of-the-century Sweden, four men and four women attempt to
navigate the laws of attraction. During a weekend in the country, the
women collude to force the men’s hands in matters of the heart, exposing
their pretensions and insecurities along the way.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Patty, a middle aged circus woman finds Asia, a two year old girl abandoned near the trailer
park where she lives. Attached to the child is a note from her mother that says she will eventually return to pick her up. Not wanting to leave the youngster on her own, Patty brings Asia back to her trailer...

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Suffering from writer's block and some curious ailments, Reiko, a celebrated writer, moves to a countryside villa at her editor's beckoning to quietly work on her next novel. However, her new
environment turns out to be anything but peaceful...

Friday, June 3, 2011

Five close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their
mistresses. One day they find the body of a young woman in the loft.
Since there are only five keys to the loft, the five men begin to
suspect each other of murder.

Five close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their
mistresses. One day they find the body of a young woman in the loft.
Since there are only five keys to the loft, the five men begin to
suspect each other of murder.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Marina is an eccentric woman in her early 20's who lives with her father, an architect suffering from an advanced stage of cancer. She views the world and the rest of humanity with a sense of detachment, and a strange curiosity learned from watching the documentaries of David Attenborough.

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